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406959 HWodKa op basis van ploegsnelheid. Foto: Wanneer het perceel is omgeploegd stop Leon Noordam de usb-stick in het Trimble-systeem, en leest de meetgegevens uit.

01-08-2019 | Expert opinion

Do not be too concerned about sharing data

Photo: Jan Willem van Vliet

15-07-2019 | Expert opinion

4 ways big data analytics are transforming agriculture

The soil paradox

20-05-2019 | Expert opinion

The soil paradox

2018-02-16 17:18:53 French farmer Cedric Jullien (L) and a technician from Axe Environnement, which supplies tools for connected agriculture, study the images obtained from a drone to determine the best use of phytosanitary products on Jullien's fields in Semoine (Aube) on February 16, 2018. French farmer Cedric Jullien maps his fields with the help of drone technology. "I've been doing connected agriculture for four years," he says, hoping to "improve the viability" of his farm and "retrieve a maximum amount of information" on the plots that compose it. / AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI

15-05-2019 | Expert opinion

Local solutions from global cooperation

2012-06-14 15:28:09 This June 14, 2012 hand out picture shows a worker checking lettuces at the indoor farm of Spread company in its Kameoka factory in Kameoka city, Kyoto prefecture. A Japanese firm said on February 1, 2016 it would open the world's first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops. Kyoto-based Spread said the indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day. AFP PHOTO / HO / SPREAD RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SPREAD" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS = SPREAD / AFP

09-05-2019 | Expert opinion

Disruption is a dangerous word for agtech

(C) Roel Dijkstra / Joep van der Pal Nieuwe Tonge - proef aardappels poten met verschillende machines

29-04-2019 | Expert opinion

Gaining minutes during potato planting

Nitrogen-fixing maize with or without biotech?

15-04-2019 | Expert opinion

Nitrogen-fixing maize – with or without biotech?

2003-10-09 00:00:00 John Shedd, 85, loads a container with Bt-corn harvested from his son's farm 09 October, 2003 near Rockton, Illinois. Shedd and his son farm 800 acres of the corn on farms in Illinois and Wisconsin. Bt-corn is a GMO (genetically modified organism) crop that offers growers an alternative to spraying an insecticide for control of European and southwestern corn borer. The Shedds sell the corn for use in ethanol. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP) FOR NEWSPAPERS AND TV USE ONLY

14-03-2019 | Expert opinion

Should agricultural innovation focus on taste first?

Artificial intelligence to replace farmer s knowledge?

07-03-2019 | Expert opinion

Artificial intelligence to replace farmer’s knowledge?

2015-10-22 00:00:00 BURLINGTON, IA - OCTOBER 22: Rick Wirt and his daughte rKrista Kempke harvest corn on October 22, 2015 near Burlington, Iowa. Wirt and his daughter farm more than 2,000 acres in the area. According to the National Corn Growers Association, the overall corn crop is on track to have the 2nd highest average yield on record. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

04-03-2019 | Expert opinion

Ontario learns corn vomitoxin lessons